October 9, 2026
Dangerous measure threatens access to health care for millions Contact: Molly Weedn | molly@weednpa.com Sacramento, CA – Today, Governor Gavin Newsom opposed Proposition 44, the flawed and cynical measure that would strip access to health care for millions of California patients. The measure would devastate community clinics, forcing hundreds to reduce services or close their doors altogether. […]
Read MoreOctober 2, 2026
By McClatchy Media’s Editorial Boards Proposition 44, also known as the Clinic Funding Accountability and Transparency Act, would require federally qualified healthcare clinics to spend no less than 90% of their funding on patient services. California currently has about 2,000 federally qualified health centers, also called community clinics. Most report spending an average of 80% […]
Read MoreOctober 1, 2026
By Dr. Jodi Parungao I am the Medical Director at Long Valley Health Center in Laytonville, a nonprofit Federally Qualified Health Center that has served North-Central Mendocino County since 1978. Every day I see what it means when patients fall through the cracks — and what becomes possible when they don’t. Proposition 44 would make […]
Read MoreSeptember 28, 2026
Doctors, Nurses and Leading Health Advocates Warn Voters that Dangerous Ballot Measure Puts Patient Lives at Risk Contact: Molly Weedn | molly@weednpa.com Sacramento, CA – Today, the No on Prop 44 campaign launched its first statewide ad, “Devastate” which is set to appear across broadcast, cable and digital platforms. The campaign’s eight figure media buy will run […]
Read MoreSeptember 25, 2026
By The Bakersfield Californian Editorial Board Proposition 44, a citizen’s initiative placed on the Nov. 3 ballot, would require private, nonprofit “federally qualified health centers” and others that serve medically underserved populations to spend at least 90% of their annual revenue on services that advance charitable purposes, including patient care. According to the union backing […]
Read MoreSeptember 24, 2026
By Impulso Newspaper Ask a nonprofit clinic in Los Angeles how much healthcare really costs, and the answer is never just doctors and offices. It’s the interpreter who explains a diagnosis in Zapotec or Mixtec to a patient who barely speaks Spanish, let alone English. It’s the community outreach worker who tracks someone down when […]
Read MoreSeptember 24, 2026
By The San Fernando Valley Sun/El Sol Editorial Board This newspaper, the San Fernando Valley Sun/El Sol, has decided to support the campaign in favor of “No” to Proposition 44. In 1973, with the support of local civic leaders, the original San Fernando Health Center opened its doors, realizing a vision of building a healthcare […]
Read MoreSeptember 24, 2026
By Donaldo M. Hernandez As a physician who has practiced on the Central Coast for over three decades, I’ve spent my career caring for patients who fall through the cracks of our health system. That includes farmworking families, vulnerable seniors on fixed incomes, the uninsured and the underinsured who depend on our community clinics not […]
Read MoreSeptember 24, 2026
By Maria Carriedo-Ceniceros For more than two decades, I’ve had the privilege of practicing family medicine at one of the San Diego region’s largest community clinics. I’ve experienced firsthand the vital role that health centers like ours play in the lives of the families, older adults and children we serve. Community health centers provide essential […]
Read MoreSeptember 19, 2026
By San Francisco Chronicle Editorial Board On its surface, everything about Proposition 44 on California’s November ballot looks appealing. Its title is straightforward: “Requires community health clinics spend 90% of revenue on program services.” And the text of the measure boldly declares its intent to “ensure clinic patient service delivery and workforce stability is prioritized […]
Read MoreSeptember 18, 2026
By El Latino Services In 1970, a group of Barrio Logan residents entered an abandoned building and refused to leave until the neighborhood had its own clinic. That building became Family Health Centers of San Diego, now one of the ten largest community health centers in the nation, serving more than 227,000 patients annually at […]
Read MoreSeptember 15, 2026
By El Popular News Editorial From clinics along Arvin and Lamont to community health centers here in Bakersfield, families across Kern County rely on a safety net built specifically for communities like ours. Independent analysts warn that Proposition 44 would hit rural and Central Valley clinics the hardest—places where the nearest alternative is often a […]
Read MoreSeptember 15, 2026
Measure will force clinics across the Bay Area to close Contact: Molly Weedn | molly@weednpa.com San Francisco, CA – Dozens of community based organizations, patients, doctors, school counselors and community clinic workers joined together in San Francisco to urge voters to oppose Proposition 44. The measure, a dangerous attack on clinics, would have a devastating impact on […]
Read MoreSeptember 10, 2026
By La Opinión Editorial Board Among the ballot measures that Californians will vote on in the elections culminating on November 3 is Proposition 44. La Opinión opposes it and calls on its readers to vote against it. From its very first paragraph, its initial premise is flawed. The video player is currently playing an ad. You […]
Read MoreSeptember 8, 2026
By The Orange County Register Editorial Board California voters have become accustomed to voting down state ballot measures seeking to impose onerous rules on dialysis clinics that would put many out of business. Those measures – in 2018, 2020 and 2022 – were placed by a particularly cynical health workers union abusing the initiative process […]
Read MoreSeptember 8, 2026
Contact: Molly Weedn | molly@weednpa.com Sacramento, CA – Major statewide labor organizations, the Peace Officers Research Association of California (PORAC) and Communications Workers of America (CWA), have opposed Proposition 44, joining a broad and growing coalition of labor leaders, patients, health care providers, community leaders and organizations working to defeat the dangerous ballot initiative. “Prop 44 would […]
Read MoreSeptember 3, 2026
Contact: Molly Weedn | molly@weednpa.com Measure would slash access to health care for more than 7 million Californians Sacramento, CA – This week, the No on Prop 44 campaign was pleased to see the League of Women Voters of California has officially opposed Proposition 44, the reckless statewide ballot measure that would restrict access to care for […]
Read MoreSeptember 1, 2026
By Samantha Nelson The City Council unanimously agreed to oppose Proposition 44, a statewide ballot measure that local health care leaders say could force community health centers serving underserved populations to close. The council voted Aug. 26 to oppose the measure after hearing from Dr. Rakesh Patel, chief executive officer of Neighborhood Healthcare, a community […]
Read MoreAugust 31, 2026
Contact: Molly Weedn | molly@weednpa.com Sacramento, CA – Equality California (EQCA), the nation’s largest statewide LGTBQ+ civil rights organization, has opposed Proposition 44. They are the latest advocacy group to join the 1,000+ community health centers, social justice advocates, community groups, business organizations, doctors, nurses, teachers and both the Democratic and Republican parties in opposing Prop 44. […]
Read MoreAugust 28, 2026
BY: PAUL THORNTON Proposition 44, which would require most community clinics to spend at least 90% of their annual revenue providing healthcare services, could have dire consequences for millions of Californians who rely on these safety-net clinics. If there were other options besides “yes” or “no” for ballot measures, I’d mark this one as “we […]
Read MoreAugust 28, 2026
By U T Editorial Board When progressive reformers launched California’s version of direct democracy in 1911, the hopes were high that the public would use initiatives that qualified for the ballot by meeting signature-gathering requirements to force change on a Legislature subservient to special interests, starting with the Southern Pacific Railroad. Instead, over the past 50 […]
Read MoreAugust 27, 2026
BY: CARMEN H., Patient Board Member In 1993, I brought my parents to a health fair at my son’s elementary school in San Marcos, California. At a mobile community health clinic onsite at that fair, my father received a simple blood sugar test. The result was alarming; his glucose level was in the 200s. Not […]
Read MoreAugust 21, 2026
BY: BRENT SUGIMOTO, Dr. Brent Sugimoto is president-elect of the California Academy of Family Physicians. Primary care doctors train for patients at every stage of life, from children to older adults, to provide the lifelong, comprehensive medical care that millions of Californians rely on. Improving the health of all residents is our mission. Many of […]
Read MoreAugust 2, 2026
Contact: Molly Weedn | molly@weednpa.com San Diego, CA – The California Democratic Party (CADEM) joined the broad and growing coalition of patients, healthcare providers, civil justice advocates and community leaders in their opposition to Proposition 44 at this weekend’s Executive Board meeting in San Diego. Ahead of the vote, representatives from the No on Prop 44 campaign […]
Read MoreJuly 31, 2026
Contact: Molly Weedn | molly@weednpa.com Reckless initiative will have devastating impact for hundreds of thousands of San Diegans who rely on community health centers for essential health care San Diego, CA – Today, representatives from community clinics, health advocacy groups, provider organizations and more gathered together ahead of the California Democratic Party’s meeting in San Diego to […]
Read MoreJune 25, 2026
Contact: Molly Weedn | molly@weednpa.com The attack on community clinics is opposed by Planned Parenthood Affiliates of California, the California Teachers Association, CA Medical Association, doctors, nurses and social justice organizations Sacramento, CA – Despite discussions that could have avoided an irresponsible ballot measure from moving forward, SEIU-UHW will forge ahead with its dangerous initiative that would […]
Read MoreJune 23, 2026
Contact: Molly Weedn | molly@weednpa.com Sacramento, CA – Community health centers and advocacy organizations dedicated to serving the LGBTQ+ community are opposed to the dangerous ballot measure that will reduce services and close community clinics, where a significant portion of LGBTQ+ patients go for their health care. “We work to build a community where everyone lives in […]
Read MoreJune 15, 2026
The proposal is flawed. It lacks important measures to protect patients and must be defeated. BY: GABRIEL LERNER SEIU-UHW, a powerful union representing healthcare workers in the western United States, has proposed a ballot measure aimed at amending the state statute. …. The fact that the measure is being promoted by a union lends it […]
Read MoreJune 10, 2026
Contact: Molly Weedn | molly@weednpa.com Reckless initiative would cost community health centers $1.7 B in the first year, forcing clinics to cut essential services for millions of kids or close altogether Sacramento, CA – The California Teachers Association (CTA) has joined the California School Based Health Alliance and the California School Nurses Organization in their opposition to […]
Read MoreMay 19, 2026
Contact: Molly Weedn | molly@weednpa.com Reckless initiative has qualified for the November 2026 ballot, putting millions of vulnerable patients at risk of losing access to health care Sacramento, CA – The dangerous initiative that will force community health centers to cut services and close their doors, has qualified for the November 2026 ballot, putting millions of lives […]
Read MoreApril 28, 2026
Contact: Molly Weedn | molly@weednpa.com Millions of Californians rely on community health centers and clinics for access to mental and behavioral health services, many of whom would be left without care if dangerous initiatives passes SACRAMENTO, CA – The California Behavioral Health Association (CBHA), the National Association of Social Workers, California Chapter (NASW California) and the […]
Read MoreApril 8, 2026
Contact: Molly Weedn | molly@weednpa.com Sacramento, CA – The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) District IX, representing thousands of OBGYNs across California, has announced opposition to the dangerous ballot measure that would decimate community health centers and result in millions of patients without essential prevention, prenatal and postnatal care. ACOG District IX joins a broad […]
Read MoreApril 1, 2026
Contact: Molly Weedn | molly@weednpa.com Proponents have submitted signatures to qualify dangerous and shameful measure for November ballot Sacramento, CA – More than 1,000 community health centers and clinics have been joined by The California Primary Care Association, Planned Parenthood Affiliates of California, the California Medical Association, the American College of Obstetrics & Gynecologists, the California […]
Read MoreFebruary 20, 2026
Contact: Molly Weedn | molly@weednpa.com Sacramento, CA – Today, prominent civil rights and social justice organizations announced their strong opposition to the dangerous ballot measure that threatens access to care for millions of California patients who depend on community health centers and clinics. “Community health centers provide the essential care that so many low-income individuals rely […]
Read MoreDecember 17, 2025
Contact: Molly Weedn | molly@weednpa.com Ballot Measure That Threatens Care for Millions of California Patients Sacramento, CA – Today, leading healthcare organizations announced their opposition to a dangerous ballot measure that threatens care for millions of patients who rely on community health centers and clinics for their healthcare. The measure, aimed for the November 2026 statewide […]
Read MoreNovember 18, 2025
Contact: Molly Weedn | molly@weednpa.com Analysis by Berkeley Research Group and State’s Former Legislative Analyst Finds Measure Will Divert $1.7 billion annually from clinics and two-thirds of community health centers and clinics in the state and put them at risk of closing Sacramento, CA – A reckless statewide ballot proposition aiming for the November 2026 General […]
Read MoreNovember 1, 2025
Executive Summary This study summarizes the methodology, underlying data, and results of our analyses of federally qualified health centers (FQHCs) and FQHC Look-Alikes in California. We have assessed the financial operations and services provided at FQHCs and other clinics and calculated the financial impact that the proposed ballot measure “Attorney General Initiative 25-0008A1” (Ballot Measure)1 […]
Read MoreOctober 7, 2025
Contact: Molly Weedn | molly@weednpa.com Cynical and unnecessary ballot initiative would result in reduced access to care, health center closures and crowded emergency rooms SACRAMENTO, CA – More than 1000 community health centers and clinic sites, representing over 2.4 million patients across the state have come out in strong opposition to a dangerous ballot measure being […]
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